Meanwhile, 140 miles away, in Kendallville, IN, a petition is being circulated to stop a proposed $7.9 million library building. Once the opposing signatures are submitted, the library will have 30 days to gather...
Archive - 14-May-04
FrankThe Neighborhood Park
On Tuesday night, Frisinger Park was jam-packed with cars and trucks and a girls’ softball team and their parents and boosters. Passing through the park, which I normally do on my way home as a shortcut, was...
Also Overheard
In between thoroughly (and devastatingly, I might add) trashing the new Wolfgang Petersen “Troy” movie and bemoaning the scariness of having just graduated, two women in Ambrosia were discussing this...
Say a Hail Mary and Two Sieg Heils
It just doesn’t get any more Fascist FunDumbMentalist than this: ‘The Roman Catholic bishop of Colorado Springs has issued a pastoral letter saying that Catholic Americans should not receive Communion if...
AirBeagleFeets Do Your Thing
I guess I was grossly mistaken when we moved here; I thought we would be paying much less for gas per gallon than we did in San Francisco. A week ago, I was waiting for the interminable light at Packard and Stadium to...
Not Such a Liberal Bastion After All
Ann Arbor isn’t the liberal bastion I thought it was; while ‘guest teaching’ today at a central AA middle school during a Career Day assembly, I passed a science classroom which was empty except for...
